Digital and physical copies of student and student-press produced newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters. Includes
The Polygram, The Polytechnic Californian, El Mustang, Mustang Daily, and Mustang News, monthly Polytechnic Journals, and
Mustang RoundUp.

Background

First published on 25 April 1916 as The Polygram, Cal Poly's Student Run newspaper has been printed under several titles,
but has continued to represent the voice of students and the campus almost continually since 1916. The Polytechnic Journal,
the first student publication, made its debut in 1906 as a monthly news and literary publication. By 1912, it was no longer
a monthly; it had evolved into the campus yearbook. The first student newspaper, The Polygram, began as a biweekly. It served
as the campus newspaper from 1916 - 1932, a period during which Cal poly expanded from a vocational school to and academic
high school and junior college. Due to a shortage of advertisers and cash, the staff relied on the campus director's mimeograph
machine for some time to produce the each issue. By 1924 a printshop was established and school publications were printed
by a student group affectionately referred to as The Galley Slaves.
In 1932, in a drastic reorganization and facing budgetary challenges, the school was reorganized and as a result the high
school and junior college were closed. Cal Poly continued as a technical college only. The student newspaper was discontinued
and was not produced between 1933-1937. In 1938, El Mustang emerged as the new student-press campus newspaper. A title change
to The Polytechnic Californian was attempted, but lasted only a year before the El Mustang title returned to the banner.
El Mustang newspaper was suspended between 1943 - 1945 to economize on manpower and supplies. During this period, a monthly
news magazine, Mustang Roundup, was produced and edited jointly by civilian and naval students under the direction of Robert
E. Kennedy in his faculty role as Head of the Journalism Department and advisor to student publications. The Roundup replaced
the El Mustang newspaper and El Rodeo yearbook, which had both ceased publication during the war. El Mustang returned shortly
after the war and in 1967 became the Mustang Daily.
In the fall quarter of 2013 the Mustang Daily became Mustang News and incorporated an online version. Today Mustang News continues
to be published and printed by students in the Journalism and Graphic Communications Departments. The newspaper is published
daily during the academic year and weekly during the summer quarter.
Digitized copies of are available online. Physical copies are available in the archives. A subject index to the collection
is available in the Special Collections and Archives reading room.

Access:
Collection is open to researchers by appointment only. For more information on visiting, access policies, and reproduction
requests, please visit our Reference Services page online at http://lib.calpoly.edu/search-and-find/collections-and-archives/reference-services/.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction:
Digital Copies are provided to researchers for the purpose of study, research, and personal use only, unless otherwise specified
in writing. Materials that are the property of Cal Poly Special Collections and Archives require written permission prior
to publication. No complete collection may be reproduced.
For print and online publication, please visit our Reproduction Services page online at http://lib.calpoly.edu/support/sca-policies/reproduction/.
Special Collections and Archives reserves the right to review all reproduction requests and to withhold permission if scanning
would endanger the material, would violate copyright law, or would violate institutional restrictions.